Why don't you just start with, and I know we got into it a little bit, but start with where

you got into dogs.

I think that's a really interesting story, and you don't see a lot of the steps that you

have taken to be where you're at in dogs, and I am generally curious too, so you started

off growing up in Yonkers.

Growing up in Yonkers, not being allowed to have a dog in my own home, my parents were primarily

my mother.

They didn't want to know anything.

They didn't own their own home.

We lived in an apartment on a dead end street, and every chance I got, every stray dog,

every opportunity, including I got a chance to become a dog walker for a local guy on

the restaurant, and he had a great day.

And so I used to walk about seven miles each way to get to the dog from where I lived.

Holy shit.

Yeah.

You live in the city, you got to walk, especially when you're 10, 11 years old.

I got a bike eventually.

I didn't always have a bicycle, but I got a bike, and I used to ride once in a while.

But $3 was the rate, and I used to take this great day out in the morning and bring them

back five, six o'clock at night.

These were during the summer's school days.

I used to get them only for an hour or so.

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